What dignity?
We have to beggar ourselves. There's no other term: We have to beggar ourselves to get the treatment we require. We have to try to find our own treatments, and then we have to beg for those treatments. We're not allowed to talk to the people, who turn around and threaten us by phone and by letter. We're not allowed any of those.... We're not allowed.
I've heard people say, “Oh, you were in the service. You had to take orders and this, that and the other.” In the service, I had more freedom. I had more dignity. I had more self-control. I had more self than I do as a veteran trying to deal with Veterans Affairs.
I have no other things to say about that.